Wireless Physiological Monitoring System Demonstrated at Fort Detrick's Forward Digital Deployable Medical Treatment Facility (FDDMTF)
Sensitron has recently conducted the installation of a wireless medical monitoring system designed to capture, display and manage the vital signs of patients at the FDDMTF site, a prototype of a military hospital at Ft. Detrick, MD. Sensitron's CareTrends (TM) System uses Bluetooth and WiFi wireless technologies and offers flexible patient monitoring, remote access to data and mobility for care providers.
(PRWEB) July 9, 2003
Sensitron has recently conducted the installation of a wireless medical monitoring system designed to capture, display and manage the vital signs of patients at the FDDMTF site, a prototype of a military hospital, at Ft. Detrick, MD. This system incorporates and uses the Bluetooth and WiFi enabled CareTrends™ System developed by Sensitron, Inc.
In just 60 minutes, the team was able to complete the installation which consisted of powering up the server, connecting the access point, activating the wireless handheld clients (pocket PCs) and positioning the medical devices at the bedside. Being a wireless system, there were no wires to untangle and the system was up and running from the moment the switches were turned on. With the intuitive user interface on the PDA, the training time for the users was just a few minutes. This landmark collaboration and installation provides the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, (TATRC) of the U. S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC), with state-of-the-art wireless medical monitoring capabilities that will accelerate the ability to achieve oversight of wounded soldiers in the field. Timely, targeted quality care will be enhanced with real-time remote access to the latest information on the health status of field personnel. Portability, flexibility and low power requirements of the CareTrends System allow the Army maximum options for customizing the system for a wide variety of field applications. Since the CareTrends System can interface with any brand or model of medical monitoring device, the Army can choose the instruments that are best adapted to the environmental and clinical requirements.
SensitronÂ’s CareTrends System offers a flexible patient monitoring system that allows remote access and mobility to the care providers in the forward area hospitals.
For more information about SensitronÂ’s capabilities, please contact Ms. Marie Bendix, marie@sensitron. net, 650.358.0244 x104.
Portions of this technology for the project discussed above were developed by SENSITRON under the US Army Acquisition Activity, under contract #: DAMD17-02-P-1003. The information above does not necessarily reflect the position of the government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.
Please direct questions to CPT Edward McDonough, Project Officer at the US Army, Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), 301-619-2976, or mcdonough@tatrc. org
